by Stéphane Hessel · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423345137
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«¡Comprometeos!: Conversaciones con Gilles Vanderpooten» is the essay by Stéphane Hessel, published by Destino in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
In dialogue with Gilles Vanderpooten, Stéphane Hessel argues that being indignant is not enough and defends the need for an ethical commitment that rejects violence. Faced with injustices, the power of money and the violation of human rights, he invites young people to take action and warns against defeatism.
Original title: «Engagez-vous!». It belongs to the Imago Mundi collection (no. 206) and the Spanish translation is by Rosa Alapont Calderaro.
Intended for the young people Hessel addresses and for any reader interested in social and political commitment.
Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In later years his activism focused on economic inequalities, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and protection for the post–World War II social vision. His short book Time for Outrage! sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. Hessel and his book were linked and cited as an inspiration for the Spanish Indignados, the Arab Spring, the American Occupy Wall Street movement and other political movements.
